Shirt-bosom protector.



"s. TARAMARCAZ & F. G.- WASSM-UTH. sum Bosom PROTECTOR,

APPLICAHON FILED JAN. 29. 19M.

1 ,1 8 8,508.. v Patented June 27,1916.

I lmzentars: Wztn asses StepkenTaramarbaz 04w Wfi ndFrcderickaW y MW.

jLiw/j/ I I TheirAi-torney- Tm: COLUMDIA-PLANOURAPH :0, WASHINGTON, D. C-

nnrrnn saiaras PM I;

onnron.

STEPHEN TARAMARCAZ AND FREDERICK G. WAS SMUTH, OF, NEW YORK, N. Y.; SAID WASSMUTl-I ASSIGNOR TO SAID TARAMARGAZ.

' SHIRT-BOSCH PROTECTOR.

Specification of Letters latent.

Patented June 27, 1916.

Application filed January 29, 1914. Serial No. 815,177.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, STEPHEN TARAMAR- OAZ, a citizen of Switzerland, and a resident of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, and FREDERICK G. IVAssMU'rrI, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York, borough of Queens, in the county of Queens and State of New York, have jointly invented cer tain new and useful Improvements in Shirt- Bosom Protectors, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to protectors for shirt bosoms, and the object of our improvements is to provide a device of the class specified simple in construction, easily attached to the under side of the shirt bosom and conferring protection to that bosom against dampness from perspiration, and at the same time absorbing and temporarily retaining the excess moisture from that part of the body of the wearer nearest the device.

In the drawing accompanying this application is illustrated the preferred form of our improvements, wherein Figure 1 is a front elevation of our improved protector, and Fig. 2 is a detail sec tion on line 2, 2 of Fig. 1 and showing to an enlarged scale several features of construction.

Our improved device is particularly adapted for employment as the backing for the well known dicky or detachable linen shirt front, commonly worn by waiters in restaurants and hotels. In summer the great heat of the kitchens and the arduousness of the waiters labors, induces a profuse perspiration, whereby said shirt fronts become rapidly soiled and crumpled, it often being necessary for a waiter to wear consecutively three such shirt fronts in the course of one days work. This obviously entails consider able trouble in changing as well as expense in laundry charges. With our improved protector, a waiter or other wearer, may so far conserve the newly laundried condition of the dicky which he is wearing as to permit him to wear it the entire day and sometimes longer. 7

Our improved protector is preferably made of about the same size and general contour as the shirt bosom or dicky, and preferably comprises a front portion 2 of some material impervious to moisture, such as thin celluloid or oiled silk. Said protector is provided with a backing 4 of open weave fabric or of some pervious sheet material, and between said front 2 and back 4 there is introduced an absorbent material 3 such as blotting paper, thin absorbent cotton, or the like. The'three thicknesses described may be perforated with slits or openings as 5, through which may be in serted the usual studs, not shown. The several thicknesses of our improved protector may be secured together by a binding tape 6 stitched around the edge thereof. The front portion 2 may be provided with an upstanding collar 7, integral with that front or made separate and attached as desired. Said collar 7 is preferably of about half the height of the shirt collar or the dicky collar, and is preferably provided with a notch 8 to fit around the shank of the front collar stud. Collar 7 is preferably formed of one thickness of material only so as to take up the least possible room within the collar of the shirt or dickey.

Our improved protector may be attached to the underside of the dicky by means of the studs passing through the slits 5, 5 and which slits should be located to register with similar openings in the shirt front or dicky.

t will be understood that various modifications may be made within the spirit and scope of our invention, and the following claim is directed to such modifications within the scope of those skilled in the art as well as to the particular exemplification shown in the drawing.

We claim:

A detachable shirt bosom protector including in combination a front member of impervious material provided with an upstanding collar containing a collar button notch in its upper edge, a back member of day of January, 1914, before subscribing pervious material, means between said front .Witnesses.

and back members for absorbing and tem- STEPHEN TA'RAMARCAZ.

porarily retaining moisture, and means for FREDERICK G. WASSMUTH.

permanently securing the front and back Witnesses:

members together at their edges. 7 Mrs. STEPHEN TARAMAROAZ,

Signed at New York, in the county of CHAS. W. LA RUE,

New York and State of New York, this 24th LILLIAN A. ROTH.

Gogien of thin patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the "Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G. 

